Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 465

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Chapter 465

“There’s less useful content than I expected.”

“?”

Salko, who was beside Lee Han, looked confused at his words.

The content Mac had just told them was roughly…

-Professor Kirmin Ku had bottled up the nightmares Mac consumed in preparation for the illusion magic exam.

-Professor Passelette Kraer mainly hides the students he takes around Professor Kirmin Ku’s workshop to confuse the students’ foresight.

…wasn’t this quite substantial information?

“Wardanaz. This seems pretty useful…”

Salko asked in a hesitant voice, different from his usual rough attitude.

He had unconsciously been intimidated by Lee Han’s madness.

Lee Han scolded Salko as if asking what he was talking about.

“Salko. Are you being fooled just because Mac is getting teary-eyed? Are you really an Einroguard student?”

“…”

-…

Not only the Black Turtle Tower students but even the siren looked at Lee Han, but he remained unfazed.

“If he bottled up his own nightmares, he should tell us how to deal with them. What good does it do to just say they’re bottled up? And anyone can guess that they’re hidden around the workshop. He should also tell us how to get in.”

Salko was thrilled beyond admiration at Lee Han’s shamelessness.

How could someone from an imperial great noble family have this level of shamelessness?

“Um… Wardanaz sir. I have something to ask about the nightmares Mac hid.”

“Oh. Ratford. Did you think of a good method?”

Lee Han asked with delight.

The nightmares Mac had swallowed were a powerful ability that was difficult to deal with.

Since he had failed to block them earlier, Lee Han was planning to torment Mac to come up with a countermeasure.

If they were nightmares he had swallowed, there must be a way.

“Well… Wardanaz sir, nightmares don’t work on you anyway, so do you really need a countermeasure?”

“…”

* * *

Flutter-

“?”

The students waiting at the library entrance fortress were puzzled by the paper bird that suddenly flew in.

“What’s this? Did Wardanaz send it?”

“No. It came from the opposite direction.”

‘Shouldn’t we first think about whether Wardanaz could even send a paper bird from that distance…’

【Notice to students taking foresight magic】

Student Shailes of the Richmond family has moved locations for the exam. Figure out the student’s location and submit it by this week.

-Passelette Kraer

“…”

“…”

The faces of the students who read the letter contorted.

What the hell was this about?

“…I forgot that all the professors are bastards.”

Giselle’s sense of betrayal was the greatest.

She had suspected the Skeleton Principal, but it turned out another professor was the culprit.

“Wait. Then why did Mac attack us earlier?”

“Maybe he was angry that we occupied this place?”

“Come on. Would it really be for such a reason? What’s so bad about borrowing this place for a bit?”

Giselle wanted to tell the White Tiger Tower student that ‘that’s enough reason for a monster to be angry,’ but there were many things to do first.

“You two there. Go to the pursuit team and tell them to come back quickly.”

“Uh… Moradi. Wouldn’t Wardanaz figure it out on his own?”

The White Tiger Tower students made excuses, reluctant to break through outside the fortress with just two people.

Then the Blue Dragon Tower students jeered.

“You call that an excuse! No matter how much of a Wardanaz he is, how could he figure that out!”

“Even if he were a friend from the same tower, would you have done that! The food Wardanaz fed you is wasted on you!”

“Coward! Woo! Spit out what you ate!”

At Gainando’s final jeer, the White Tiger Tower students’ faces turned red.

“Fine, we’ll go!”

“Woo! Woo!”

“…We’re absolutely not going out until that guy shuts up. Make him shut up!”

The Blue Dragon Tower students stopped Gainando’s jeering.

And just as the White Tiger Tower students were about to leave while grumbling, the pursuit team returned from afar.

“!!”

“They’re back!”

“Wardanaz! Come back quickly! It wasn’t a monster but a professor who kidnapped him!!”

Lee Han, hearing his friends’ shouts from afar, replied.

“I know! It must have been Professor Kraer who kidnapped him!”

“…”

“…???”

The friends inside the fortress looked at each other with confused expressions.

How on earth?

“…What did I tell you! I said Wardanaz would figure it out on his own!”

The White Tiger Tower student who had made excuses earlier suddenly remembered and shouted loudly.

Giselle tapped her friend’s shoulder and beckoned with her index finger to come closer.

“Why? Moradi?”

“It’s embarrassing, so shut your mouth.”

“…Okay…”

Lee Han, who passed through the fortress’s main gate, briefly explained what had happened with Mac.

“Anyway, when I said we’d vacate the library after the flood ends, he was convinced.”

“…”

“…”

“…Wait, I think I need a slightly longer explanation to understand…”

When a student tried to ask how he had negotiated with the monster that had been causing such a ruckus, Lee Han cut him off.

“That’s not what’s important right now.”

“But if that’s not important…”

“The illusion magic exam and foresight magic exam are coming up soon, and that’s more important. I have something to tell everyone, so those taking each school of magic should gather to one side.”

Ratford, who was taking illusion magic, nodded and grabbed Lee Han’s arm, trying to naturally drag him toward the illusion magic side.

Asan, who was taking foresight magic, also nodded and grabbed Lee Han’s arm, trying to naturally drag him toward the foresight magic side.

“…Both of you let go.”

“Oops!”

“Sorry.”

The two friends let go of his hands in embarrassment. Lee Han explained the information he had obtained with a bitter expression.

“Mac’s nightmares?”

“Right. Unfortunately, I couldn’t extract the method to break them from Mac. What a despicable bastard.”

“…?”

“Ah, no. Mac probably doesn’t know that much either.”

His friends were flustered by Lee Han’s words.

Just as a venomous snake doesn’t carry antidotes around, wouldn’t the same apply to Mac?

Grabbing a snake and demanding ‘give me the antidote’ wouldn’t make a non-existent antidote appear.

“So I think we’ll each have to figure out countermeasures on our own… The problem is the divination magic exam. I’ve found out it’s somewhere around Professor Ku’s tower.”

“What?!”

“How on earth!”

The students taking divination magic were shocked by Lee Han’s words.

No matter how genius Wardanaz’s magical abilities were, such precise location divination seemed impossible without any clues.

Could it be that Wardanaz had actually proven the old saying that nothing is impossible in magic?

“Oh. I asked Mac about it.”

“…”

“…”

The listening students began to wonder how Lee Han had asked Mac about it.

To make him spill that much, hadn’t he hung Mac upside down and tortured him or something?

“Hey. Salko. Was Mac okay?”

“He cried a little, but overall he’s fine, so don’t worry.”

Salko had said this to defend Lee Han, but it wasn’t very effective.

The Black Turtle Tower friends whispered with horrified faces.

“He really was fine. Honestly, the siren looked worse…”

“What? Why does the siren come up?”

“Well, she was assigned the role of pulling the boat.”

“You captured a siren and used her as a rower???”

“Hey. Keep it down over there.”

Lee Han was annoyed at his friends who kept making unnecessary noise.

What was with all this chatter during the sacred exam preparation period?

“We know it’s around the tower, but we’re still far from pinpointing the exact location. Since we lack clues, let’s all cooperate to find it.”

Gainando, who had been listening nearby, spoke in a serious voice.

“I think it’s probably in the basement.”

“Why’s that?”

“In last issue’s magazine, the place where Toberiz found the kidnapped person was a basement.”

“…”

“Wait. You’re not even taking divination magic.”

“Huh? Oh. But I thought you’d all need my help…”

The divination magic students grabbed Gainando’s arms and dragged him away.

Lee Han ignored this and continued speaking.

“Bring a map. Let’s divide up the areas. Asan. You take from that tall elm tree to the brick wall. You take…”

-A letter has arrived!

When the Death Knight appeared at the library entrance and shouted, the students were startled.

-Why is everyone acting like that?

“Oh… it’s nothing.”

“A friend disappeared.”

The students felt awkward saying ‘a kidnapping happened and we suspect the Skeleton Principal the most, so we got startled for no reason’ in front of the Principal’s minion, so they deflected.

-My master kidnapped them! I know nothing!

“…No, no. It wasn’t the Principal but another professor who kidnapped them.”

-Oh. Really?

The Death Knight was embarrassed.

-I thought my master had kidnapped them again.

“…”

“…”

-Anyway, here’s the letter.

When the Death Knight handed over the letter, Lee Han unconsciously accepted it.

At that moment, the letter burst into black flames and a strong wave struck Lee Han.

“?”

Today’s lesson is not to easily open suspicious letters!

The Skeleton Principal’s cheerful voice echoed through the air.

You’ll keep laughing, but think of it as the price of the lesson. It should disappear in about an hour.

“…”

More frightening than the letter with the forced laughter curse was the awkward situation where the recorded voice played even though the curse hadn’t worked.

The students looked at each other, not knowing how to react, and the Death Knight hung his head low, feeling embarrassed on behalf of his master.

“Um… well… the probability of me being selected was low, so he might have forgotten.”

-Please keep this secret from my master.

Tomorrow morning’s 【Advanced Basic Magic Character Education】 exam will be simple. You’ve all worked hard, so let’s go on a picnic.

“?”

“???”

“?????”

The students were confused by such unexpected words.

What the…

“A, a picnic?”

“Isn’t that good?”

“Hey. Look at the weather outside…”

“Still, it seems better than an exam.”

The students were confused, torn between ‘a picnic in this weather?’ and ‘still, isn’t this fortunate?’

Oh right. Picnic preparation is also part of the grade. Pack your lunch boxes well. Having others pack for you is absolutely forbidden. Wardanaz. Are you listening?

The students’ gazes focused on Lee Han. Lee Han felt slightly wronged.

Well then, prepare well and see you tomorrow!

The voice faded away distantly.

“Where’s the picnic location?”

-I don’t really know. Won’t they guide us tomorrow?

“…”

“…”

-I really don’t know! Please believe me!

Under the students’ sharp gazes, the Death Knight appealed sincerely.

* * *

“Flip it now. No. Flip it gently. Don’t you know what gently means? Lower the heat. Lower the heat. Lower the heat!”

Gainando shook the frying pan while inwardly crying, vowing to cherish every bite when eating pancakes in the future.

Who knew that food he’d eaten without much thought involved such great hardship…

“I need to prepare for the divination magic exam, but this is taking too much time.”

Lee Han clicked his tongue looking at the students gathered around the makeshift furnace.

To have my time stolen like this when there are still remaining exams.

“Isn’t this a bit petty?”

-Uh… well… isn’t Student Wardanaz taking too many classes?

The Death Knight answered without thinking, then covered his own mouth.

What kind of grudge was he trying to earn by talking back to a future Archmage like this…!

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